CALL FOR PAPERS: CATR Autoethnography

[Magdalena Kazubowski-Houston]

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS -- CATR CURATED PANEL - University of Victoria, 2013

*Panel Title:*/Performance and Auto/ethnography: Interdisciplinary 
Conservations
/*Organizers:* Magdalena Kazubowski-Houston (York University) and Dara 
Culhane (Simon Fraser University)

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In the last two decades, auto/ethnography has become an important way of 
doing ethnographic research. Auto/ethnographers draw on auto/biography 
-- a self-authored account of a person's life -- as a way of thinking 
about everyday life and human experience. Although a wide range of 
representational strategies has been employed in auto/ethnographic work, 
performance, broadly understood, has become one of its principal means 
of expression. Auto/ethnographers perform their own experiences to 
extend understandings of culture, politics and power. However, while 
debates about auto/ethnographic research have been ongoing 
internationally, there have been few opportunities for 
auto/ethnographers from interdisciplinary backgrounds to engage in 
conversations about their work.


The goal of this panel is to better understand and articulate the 
auto/ethnographic work that is currently being done by scholars both 
within a Canadian context and abroad. We seek papers that engage with 
questions of theoretical and methodological underpinnings of 
auto/ethnographic research.


Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:

·Theoretical and methodological advantages and disadvantages of 
performative auto/ethnographic research

·Poetics and politics of performative auto/ethnographic work

·Performative auto/ethnographic work as cultural critique and/or 
activist praxis

·Canadian performative auto/ethnography and American, British and 
European counterparts

·Future trajectories of performative auto/ethnographic work

·Performative auto/ethnography in marginalized communities

·Relationship between ethnographer, research participants and audiences 
in performative auto/ethnographic research

·Contributions of performative auto/ethnography to performance studies 
research

Individual presentations should not exceed 15 minutes. The panel will 
involve paper presentations and moderated discussions between fellow 
presenters and conference participants.

Interested scholars should submit an abstract (no more than 250 words) 
and a brief biography to Magdalena Kazubowski-Houston mkazubow at yorku.ca 
<mailto:mkazubow at yorku.ca>by December 15, 2012. Invitations to 
participate will be emailed in early January 2013.





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Magdalena Kazubowski-Houston
Assistant Professor, Department of Theatre
Graduate Program in Theatre Studies
York University
320 Centre for Film and Theatre (CFT)
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
Canada
T: 416-736-2100
E: mkazubow at yorku.ca

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